Category Archives: Eldering
Wants them not
Elders are about bringing meeting and relation to a world which wants them not. :- Doug.
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real opening
Eldering is about real living: opening the world of experiencing and using to the world of meeting and relation. :- Doug.
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Sufficiently
We cannot as elder fill to the brim those we are eldering, but can hope sufficiently for the day. :- Doug.
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Wandering on purpose
We could do a mind map about What is eldering, How one wanders into it. Wandering on purpose, on purpose of eldering. :- Doug.
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Gently
This is eldering: asking an adult child about the trajectory of his or her life: gently pointing to possible reflections. :- Doug.
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With the whole
The key to eldering is to relate, to meet, with the whole being. :- Doug.
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Lifetime practice
Eldering takes a lifetime of practice. :- Doug.
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to lead out
Eldering has often been storying around because humans innately know the power of story to lead out among us :- Doug.
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hearing a life
The task of eldering at least in part is not telling a message, rather hearing a life. :- Doug.
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Can you build and heal?
Can you build and heal? You can, through your conversations, in whatever form. You can become part of their stories, immersed. :- Doug.
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Invent the practice
Let us together invent the practice of eldering. :- Doug.
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Responsibility for their own caring
Elders take responsibility, not for outcomes, rather for their own caring for the children, for the others. :- Doug.
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Together imagine acts
Let us together imagine acts of eldering. :- Doug.
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Inciting a decent society
If we intend to be human we ought to open to hearing what is difficult to hear. Do we have the imagination to take into ourselves the experiences of another? Is this something an elder can learn for the rest … Continue reading
Can it be fulfilling?
Can living with a nursing home be fulfilling? :- Doug.